AWAKE, my St. John ! leave all meaner things To low ambition and the pride of kings. Let us (since life can little more supply Than just to look about us and to die) Expatiate free o'er all this scene of man ; A mighty maze ! but not without a plan ;... The Works of Alexander Pope: Moral essays - Pągina 4per Alexander Pope - 1757Visualització completa - Sobre aquest llibre
| Alexander Pope - 1797 - 384 pągines
...apparent mortification, in the Apology prefixed to the laft edition of this View. EPISTLE I. A WAKE, my ST. JOHN! leave all meaner things To low ambition,...Expatiate free o'er all this fcene of Man ; 5 A mighty maze ! but not without a plan ; A wild, where weeds and flow'rs promifcuous moot, Or Garden, tempting... | |
| Alexander Pope - 1798 - 140 pągines
...things To low ambition, and the pride of kings ; Let us, since life can little more supply Than just to look about us and to die, Expatiate free o'er all this scene of man; A mighty maze ! but not without a plan ; A wild, where weeds and flow'rs promiscuous... | |
| 1799 - 394 pągines
...following verfe, implying, Surely Tuch a brief exiltence ought not to be m alt: ft wretched. — " Since life can little more fupply, Than juft to look about us and to die." Pope. • So llifiyi , that it fcarcely allows time for a fecond look. This ftage orke pnlr, not an... | |
| 1800 - 624 pągines
...revelation. Awake, my St. John, leave all meaner things To Inw ambition and the pride of kings; Let иц fince life can little more fupply Than juft to look...about us, and to die, Expatiate free o'er all this fceneofman : A mighty maze 1 but not without a plan. Epif. !. ty, that no bufinefs or avocation етег... | |
| William Mitford - 1804 - 490 pągines
...ambi|iion and | the pride | of kings; Let us, | since life | can Iit|tlc more | supply / / Than ,ufi | to look | about | us and | to die, Expa|tiate free | o'er all | this fcene | of man, f A mlgh|ty maze, | but no: \ without | a plan ; A wild, | where weeds | and flowers | promls|cuous... | |
| Alexander Pope - 1804 - 232 pągines
...things To low ambition and the pride of kings. Let us (since life can little more supply Than just to look about us and to die) Expatiate free o'er all this scene of Man ; 5 A mighty maze ! but not without a plan : A wild where weeds and flow'rs promiscuous... | |
| Alexander Pope, William Lisle Bowles - 1806 - 466 pągines
...it difplays as a poem. This Eflay was tranflated into Latin verfe by J. Sayer. [" EPISTLE I. A WAKE, my ST. JOHN! leave all meaner things To low ambition,...fupply Than juft to look about us and to die) Expatiate COMMENTARY. THE opening of this Poem [in fifteen lines] is taken up in giving an account of the fubject... | |
| Alexander Pope - 1806 - 474 pągines
...A WAKE, my ST. JOHN! leave all meaner things To low ambition, and the pride of Kings. Let us (fmce Life can little more fupply Than juft to look about us and to die) Expatiate COMMENTARY. THE opening of this Poem [in fifteen lines] is taken up in giving an account of the fubjeft... | |
| Albin-Joseph-Ulpien Hennet - 1806 - 360 pągines
...things To low ambition and the pride of kings ! Let us , since life can little more supply Than just to look about us and to die , Expatiate free o'er all this scene of man. * POPE , cssay on raati. JLiA raison voulut un jour parler le langage de la poésie :... | |
| Joseph Warton - 1806 - 440 pągines
...things To low ambition, and the pride of kings ; Let us (since life can little more supply Than just to look about us, and to die) Expatiate free o'er all this scene of man ; A mighty maze ! but not without a plan. EPIST. IVI This opening is awful, and commands... | |
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